SURREAL DOODLE "THETECHNOLOGICAL TAKE OVER"

ELECTRIC PEOPLE

Surreal Doodle from The City of Gears! The sound of electronics rolls out over
the streets. The buzzing, humming, clicking and beeping of tiny
devices permeates throughout the city. Where there was once thousands
of voices all mixed together in an inaudible drone, there is only
vibrations as the words are now transmitted instead. Bordering on
telepathy the crowds all stare into their hands as a rectangular blue
luminescence is projected onto their faces. Conversations, business
meetings, purchases and even fights are teleported from these devices
through wires and airwaves all over the world. It doesn't take very
long before the last human voice is passed.

Like this evolution of communications
so to does the body begin to change. No longer in need of our mouths,
eyes or appendages the technologies begin to assimilate mutating and
melding into the flesh. Wires grow from man's ears and metallic
instruments connect with man's mind. As the metamorphosis advances
the separate entities begin to connect with each other. Information
becomes homogenous, streamlined from one consciousness to the next
until there is only a single thought, a solitary word, and lone sound
left on every screen. In moving towards a harmonized intelligence the
individual is rendered unnecessary and soon becomes obsolete.

Despite the massive assimilation some
strange creatures still survive. Half human half animals roam the
crowded streets untamed. However despite their instincts for survival
they have little hope of competing with the newly formed societal
machine. As a result these beings are abandoned as rabid creatures
left to seek shelter singing songs in the parks. At the top of a
light post the torso of a salary man can be seen, arms stretched out
like a crucifix with wires penetrating his body at every angle. A new
religion, beyond that, a new philosophy, a new existence has already
take over eliminating every opposition and leaving anything outside
of itself behind to die.